Rye Wax

“14 tracks: Studio Psych-Out”

This selection spies 14 songs employing the studio as interface for psychedelic dialogue between dimensions. With focus on pioneering producers such as Joe Meek, Lee Perry, Martin Hannett, Pete Kember a.k.a. Sonic Boom (via Panda Bear), Conny Plank and Alessandro Alessandroni, we explore the "sonification" of music throughout the last 50 years. From dub to kosmische thru jazz and the avant-garde, there's a constant thread of inquisitive, innovative minds manipulating the spatial and temporal parameters of their music in search of an unquantifiable element. In their attempts to transcend melodic and harmonic conventions they uncover fascinating new junctures, blurring and…